On The Grasshopper (from The Greek) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFCCGGHHIIJJ JJKL| Happy songster perch'd above | A |
| On the summit of the grove | B |
| Whom a dewdrop cheers to sing | C |
| With the freedom of a king | C |
| From thy perch survey the fields | D |
| Where prolific nature yields | D |
| Nough that willingly as she | E |
| Man surrenders not to thee | E |
| For hostility or hate | F |
| None thy pleasures can create | F |
| Thee it satisfies to sing | C |
| Sweetly the return of spring | C |
| Herald of the genial hours | G |
| Harming neither herbs nor flowers | G |
| Therefore man thy voice attends | H |
| Gladly thou and he are friends | H |
| Nor thy never ceasing strains | I |
| Phoebus or the muse disdains | I |
| As too simple or too long | J |
| For themselves inspire the song | J |
| Earth born bloodless undecaying | J |
| Ever singing sporting playing | J |
| What has nature else to show | K |
| Godlike in its kind as thou | L |
William Cowper
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